that's Not Fleetwood Mac lol! 
Probably it is but not how I grew up knowing them and seeing them in concert
 

Strangely enough, for all his awesome blues chops AND writing "Black Magic Woman", this is Peter Green's best known recording.

Sigh. As many of you are aware, Cynaera is no longer with us having passed away early this year. 

I think this time is as good as any to take stock and realise we are all here but for a moment in time, and that one should enjoy every drop of life we have. . . while we have it.

Now - back to the music. 

Poacher, you are one unfathomable chap. And it makes you all the more dear to me, even when you piss me off to the point where I want to slap you with a fish.

Early Mac n Blues - the Best Mac!  Anyone listen to The Peter Green Splinter Group? He still has it...

1969...???  You're frickin' kiddin' me...how sweet it is.;-)

Huge memories, I was outside the studio when this was recorded. Waiting for my girl friend to finish work.

Funny you should say that, this takes me back to the same place and the same situation. Trouble is, when the slow dance came on, all the boys (including myself) who'd been lurking on the walls suddenly came forward in an unseemly rush to grab any girl who looked vaguely available, which led to a mass exodus to the girl's toilets (by the girls, that is). The boys who 'got lucky' were those who'd put the work in by dancing all night, and plainly weren't there just for the pull but genuinely liked dancing and/or were good at it. I later learnt that girls considered slow numbers like this to be Mars Bar songs, because when they were captured/clinched/molested it felt like the boy had a Mars Bar in his trouser pocket...

I don't know about your discos, Jools, but you'd have had no bother getting a clinch and a snog at the ones I used to go to. The rush for girls when a slowie went on reminds me, now, of the way that female frogs get mobbed by horny male frogs as soon the females put out the slightest sign of interest...

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That's strange. I'd buy this cd based on the cover, but as I really don't like Albatross I'd not get it. 

Being of a "certain age" and British, this takes me back to school discos and waiting to be asked to slow-dance and hopefully get a snog....sigh!

Released as a single in 1969, Albatross has been re-released many times as a single in various countries, with many different B-sides. It has the distinction of having inspired the Beatles' Sun King from 1969's Abbey Road.

Always dug this song.  And, the album is underrated with the original Black Magic Woman.  That's Mick Fleetwood (in drag) on the cover.

I'd never buy this CD based on the cover!   Thank goodness, I was able to hear some of the music, so could close my eyes, pick up the CD and purchase it with confidence.  (Had I been in Montréal, there wouldn't have been a second glance.)

What an awesome, beautiful song! Sometimes, I long for the "old" Fleetwood Mac...

Who is the funny guy on the album cover then?

Who is the funny guy on the album cover then?